Perhaps no magazine captures twentieth-century life with such verve and warmth as Life, celebrated in a new show at Opera Gallery in London, which brings together images from the collection, taken between 1936 and 2000. In those years, Life commissioned more than ten million photographs—an impressive feat in the mostly pre-digital era—and its scope was described by magazine magnate Henry Luce as “big pictures, beautiful pictures, exciting pictures, pictures from all over the world, pictures of interesting people and lots of babies”. The show will take visitors on a journey, batting between Beatlesmania, VJ Day and Gandhi’s immense work in India.
